I always say yes to under water themed photo shoots. With Zahrat Al Khaleej and one of my favorite models Dima, it was a very successful photo shoot and I instantly fell in love with the results.
Thank you Zahrat Al Khaleej.
Zahrat Al Khaleej featuring Aiisha Ramadan design
Zahrat Al Khaleej featuring Aiisha Ramadan design
Zahrat Al Khaleej featuring Aiisha Ramadan design
All above items are available at Studio8, Jumeirah, Dubai.
For those familiar with the Arab Media, Zahrat Al Khaleej magazine is one of the top 3 in the GCC. The team behind Zahrat Al Khaleej has come together to extend their vision into an Arabic only website under the name of Ana Zahra. Incidentally, Ana Zahra means (I’m a flower). The website will be under www.anazahra.com
It will be covering lifestyle, fashion and beauty. Contributers will be from Paris, Saudi Arabia, Beirut, and of course the UAE.
A few months ago, I was approached by Zoya Sakr, most likely the tallest lady I’ve ever met. But also one of the finest, most elegant and has some mystery in her eyes. She observes a lot.. she appreciates well.
After hearing about my lifestyle and all that I do, I was immediately categorized as one of their Inspirational Women and was requested to write my diaries to Ana Zahra.
The challenge to me was to write in Arabic. I “was” the top student in high school with my Arabic, but that kind of evaporated throughout the years for the lack of practice. However, when I started writing, it all started flooding. I had a style in writing. Its easy yet deep. At least thats how I like to think about it. I hope you’ll enjoy it.
The first few articles will be more like an introduction and talking about my history on how I got into Fashion, talking about each collection, what was behind it and what it meant to me, my styling career and lots about my family.
Its about my personal fashion oriented life.
My policy was to delete as less as possible. Just let it out, be myself and within the borders of respecting the public.
Experts and contributors will include the likes of Joelle Mardinian, who looked stunning wearing one of my Love Affair dresses at our group photoshoot. I’ll write a separate blog about that.
For now, I’d like to thank Zoya, Ana Zahra Team, my family and all of those who have supported me.
Do check out www.anazahra.com and I really hope you’ll enjoy it.
From the Barbie Collection by Aiisha Ramadan
To give you a little insight on what I did with the Barbie collection, I chose to keep Barbie as I love it and as most of all love it too. Simple, cute, trendy and mostly pink! The fabrics were top quality Raw Silk, layers and layers of Italian Tulle to achieve the gradience I was looking for.
From the Barbie Collection by Aiisha Ramadan
However, to incorporate the cultural element, I hand-embroidered and CRYSTALLIZED™ – by Swarovski Elements Arabic calligraphy portraying words that speak to every kid. Simple words such as Youth, Beauty, Playing, Hope and so on, all in Arabic.
Remember what Queen Rania says.. “If you educate a girl, you educate a future”. This is one little way of contributing from my side and its just the beginning.
Thank you Zahrat Al Khaleej!